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THE     PRESENT     CHURCH      BUILDING,     ERECTED     1852 


In  1813  the  only  church  in  Paterson  was  the  Old  Dutch 
Church  of  Totowa.  It  was  built  in  1775  and  stood  on  what  is 
now  Rjle  avenue,  south  of  Matlock  street.  It  was  in  this  church 
that  Presbyterians  then  residing  in  Paterson  had  been  accustomed 
to  gather  for  public  worship.  Paterson  was  founded  as  a  city  in 
1792,  and  the  town  was  only  two  years  old  when  Miss  Sarah  Colt, 
at  the  suggestion  of  her  brother,  Peter,  gathered  little  children 
together  and  formed  a  Sabbath  School.  The  records  of  the 
Sabbath  School  were  destroyed  in  the  lire  in  the  lecture  room 
in  1886,  and  for  its  early  history  we  must  rely  on  tradition 
handed  down  from  one  generation  to  another.  The  persistent 
tradition  that  a  Sabbath  School  was  founded  in  Paterson  in  1794 
is  upheld  by  Henry  Clay  Trumbull's  Yale  Lectures  on  the  Sab- 
bath School,  where  we  read:  "A  Sunday  School  was  organized 
at  the  home  of  Mr.  Thomas  Crenshaw,  in  Hanover  County,  Va., 
in  1786.  In  January,  1791,  at  Philadelphia,  the  first  Day  or 
Sunday  School  Society  was  formed.  In  1791  a  Sunday  School 
was  started  in  Boston;  in  1793  one  was  started  in  New  York 
by  Katy  Ferguson,  a  colored  woman;  in  1794  one  was  started  in 
Paterson."  Robert  Raikes  opened  the  first  Sunday  School  at 
Gloucester,  England,  in  1780.  The  school  founded  in  Paterson 
by  Sarah  Colt  was  thus  the  first  in  New  Jersey  and  one  of  the 
first  in  the  United  States. 

By  the  year  1813  the  Presbyterians  of  Paterson  considered 
themselves  sufficiently  numerous  to  form  a  congregation.  On 
the  10th  of  March  a  subscription  paper  was  signed  by  more  than 
fifty  persons,  the  subscriptions  varying  from  one  to  twelve  dollars. 
A  quaint  reflection  of  the  industrial  life  of  the  day  is  found  in 
the  entry,  "David  Auchinvole,  ten  dollars,  &  one  dollar  for  each 
apprentice."  On  the  19th  of  August,  1813,  thirty-seven  men  con- 
vened at  the  house  of  Mr.  O.  D.  Ward  and  formed  the  "First  Pres- 
byterian Society  in  tlie  town  of  Paterson."  Samuel  Colt,  Brown 
King,  Oshea  Wilder,  Alvan  Wilcox,  John  Gould,  David  Auchin- 
vole and  John  Colt  were  elected  trustees'  and  instructed  to  raise 

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money  for  a  church  building.  At  that  time  the  trustees  were 
obliged  to  swear  to  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States, 
and  bear  "true  faith  and  allegiance  to  the  Government  established 
in  this  state."  Thej)apers  of  incorporation  were  filed  in  the  Court 
House  at  Newark  on  August  30,  1813.  The  ecclesiastical  organ- 
ization was  effected  two  months  later,  when,  at  their  "usual  place 
of  worship,"  probably  the  Dutch  Church,  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hyl- 
lier  as  Moderator  and  Oshea  Wilder  as  Clerk,  the  following  per- 
sons, "humbly  trusting  in  the  grace  of  the  great  Shepherd  and 
Bishop  of  Souls,"  united  together  as  a  Christian  church  "under 
the  name  and  style  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Patcr- 
son"  :  — 

Samuel  Colt  and  Phebe,  his  wife,  from  the  First  Presbv- 

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terian  Church  in  Newark. 

Sarah,  wife  of  Peter  Colt,  from  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Newark. 

Miss  Sarah  Colt,  from  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Newark. 

John  Clark  and  Jane,  his  wife,  from  Paisley,  Scotland. 

John  R.  Gould  and  Nancy,  his  wife,  from  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  Newark. 

William  Dickey,  from  Philadelphia. 

Oshea  Wilder  and  Cornelia,  his  wife,  from  the  Brick  Church, 
New  York. 

Brown  King,  from  Cedar  street.  New  York. 

David  Auchinvole,  from  New  York. 

Widow  Isabella  King,  from  Philadelphia. 

The  male  members  of  the  congregation  then  proceeded  to 
elect  deacons  and  elders.  David  Auchinvole  and  John  R.  Gould 
were  chosen  deacons,  and  John  R.  Gould,  David  Auchinvole, 
Samuel  Colt,  Zadock  Brown  and  Oshea  Wilder  elders,  and  or- 
dained at  the  same  meeting  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hyllier,  At  this 
time  the  meetings  of  the  Session  were  held  at  the  home  of  Samuel 
Colt.  The  first  celebration  of  Lord's  Supper  was  observed  by 
the  new  congregation  on  Nov.  14th,  1813,  the  Rev.  James  Rich- 
ards officiating.     During  this  period  the  church  was  served  by 

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SARAH     COLT 
Founder    of    the    Sabbath     School 


ministers  in  the  Presbytery  of  Newark,  Mr.  Hyllier,  Mr.  James 
Richards,  Mr.  John  McDowell,  and  Mr.  Hooper  Cummings.  The 
latter  minister  was  one  Sabbath  afternoon,  in  Jnne,  1812,  on  his 
way  back  to  Newark,  when  he  and  his  bride  of  a  few  weeks 
stopped  At  the  Falls  of  the  Passaic  to  view  the  cataract.  In  some 
way  Mrs.  Cummings  lost  her  footing  and  fell  into  the  gorge.  An 
uncharitable  suspicion  arose  at  the  time  that  the  minister  had 
pushed  his  wife  into  the  chasm. 

The  first  installed  pastor  of  the  church  was  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Fisher,  D.  D.,  who  was  called  to  Paterson  from  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Morristown,  one  of  the  largest  congregations 
in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  Dr.  Fisher  was  born  at  Sunderland, 
Conn.,  being  the  posthumous  son  of  Lieutenant  Jonathan  Fisher, 
an  officer  in  the  Continental  Army,  who  died  of  fever  in  camp 
at  Morristown,  N.  J.,  March  10,  1777.  His  mother  was  a  woman 
of  strong  Christian  character,  and  three  of  her  four  sons  became 
ministers  of  the  Gospel.  On  the  day  of  his  birth  Samuel  was 
adopted  by  his  uncle.  Dr.  Ware,  and  when  five  years  of  age  went 
to  live  with  him  on  his  farm  at  Conway,  Mass.  In  1779  he  was 
graduated  from  Williams  College,  the  total  expense  of  his  four 
years  being  $642.32.  During  his  college  course  he  was  convicted 
of  sin  and  made  a  public  profession  of  his  faith  in  the  church 
at  Deerfield.  In  1801  he  became  tutor  in  Williams  College,  at 
the  same  time  pursuing  his  theological  studies.  He  was  licensed 
to  preach  by  the  Berkshire  Association,  in  Lee,  Oct.  3,  1804.  In 
1809  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Morristown,  N.  J.,  where  he  labored  until  he  came  to 
Paterson  in  1814. 

On  the  18th  of  January,  1814,  the  trustees  of  the  church 
voted  to  give  out  the  contracts  for  the  new  building.  It  was  to 
be  of  frame  and  to  measure  forty  by  fifty  feet.  This  plan  was 
afterwards  changed  and  a  brick  church  erected.  On  the  2d  of 
May,  1814,  the  trustees  met  and  staked  out  the  church  lot  on 
the  property  donated  by  the  Society  for  Establishing  Useful  Man- 
ufactures. The  lot  was  bounded  by  Cross,  Spring  (now  Oliver, 
then  named   Spring,  after  the  Dublin  Spring   at  the  corner  of 


Spring  and  Mill  streets,)  Ward  street,  and  the  Paterson  and  Ham- 
burgh turnpike  (now  Main  street).  The  cornerstone  was  laid 
by  Dr.  Fisher  August  5th,  1814.  This  stone  bore  the  initials 
of  the  church,  the  ^ate,  and  the  name  of  the  pastor.  It  was  saved 
from  the  ruins  of  two  fires  and  is  now  in  the  wall  of  the  vestibule 
under  the  tower  at  the  northeast  corner.  The  building  of  the 
church  dragged  through  several  years  and  was  not  completed  until 
1819,  when  the  pews  were  built.  The  records  of  the  meetings 
of  the  trustees  during  this  period  speak  of  the  ''School  House" 
as  the  meeting  place.  This  was  probably  the  Academy  at  the 
corner  of  Market  and  Union  streets.  On  Oct.  3,  1814,  there  was 
a  call  for  a  meeting  af  the  congregation  ''at  early  Candle  Light- 
ing." Notices  were  posted  on  the  tree  in  front  of  the  Dutch 
Church,  where  the  congregation  worshipped.  We  find  the  trus- 
tees debating  as  to  whether  they  shall  build  a  pulpit  'Svith  or  with- 
out a  canopy."  The  Second  Church,  Newark,  seems  to  have  been 
the  touchstone  of  ecclesiastical  architecture  at  that  time,  for  the 
trustees  voted  that  the  pews  in  the  new  church  are  to  ho  ''equally 
as  good  as  those  in  the  Second  Chvirch,  Newark,  provided  the 
cost  is  not  more  than  $2.50  a  pew."  In  October,  1819,  we  find 
the  trustees  meeting  in  the  church  building,  which  must  have 
been  dedicated  some  time  previous  to  that  date.  Dr.  Fisher  was 
the  real  builder  and  maker  of  the  church.  He  worked  in  it  him- 
self, and  with  his  colored  man  cut  down  trees  in  the  woods  and 
hauled  the  logs  to  the  village,  as  well  as  collecting  funds.  On  the 
evening  of  the  20th  of  June,  1822,  the  newly  finished  church  was 
struck  by  lightning  and  partially  demolished.  The  Paterson 
"Chronicle"  of  Wednesday,  June  25,  1822,  had  this  account  of 
the  disaster: — 

*'The  Weather.  For  a  considerable  length  of  time  previous  to 
Thursday  last,  vegetation,  in  this  region  of  country,  liad  been  suf- 
fering under  a  continued  dearth.  Although  the  season  of  summer 
had  progressed  to  the  usual  ])eriod  of  occasionally  refreshing 
showers,  yet  the  clouds  seemed  to  lack  moisture  and  the  earth  was 
parched  with  thirst.  The  green  verdure  of  the  fields  lost  its  hue, 
and  the  products  of  agriculture  sjinpathized  in  the  general  gloom. 

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OLD     DUTCH     CHURCH 
Where    the    congregation    first    worshipped 


Melancholy  indeed  were  the  prospects  of  the  husbandman :  but  He 
Vho  hath  stretched  forth  the  heavens,  and  laid  the  foundations 
of  the  earth'  remembered  us  in  mercy. 

"Ou  Thursday  morning  it  commenced  raining,  and  continued 
mostly  through  the  day,  with  a  cool  air.  Near  night  the  clouds 
broke,  and  the  air  partially  cleared,  at  evening,  however,  a  dark 
cloud  hung  over  the  western  horizon,  and  soon  gave  appearance  of 
a  heavy  shower.  It  came,  and  between  the  hours  of  10  and  12, 
this  town  was  visited  with  a  most  a\vful  display  of  divine  magni- 
ficence. The  whole  atmosphere  seemed  enveloped  in  one  general 
electric  blaze,  while  loudly  repeated  peals  of  thunder  rolled 
through  the  air,  and  man,  feeble  man,  with  fearful  heart,  trem- 
blingly beheld  the  majestic  scene. 

''During  this  period  of  awful  grandeur,  while  the  vivid  light- 
ning played  harmlessly  around  our  dwellings,  the  Brick  Presby- 
terian Church  in  this  village  became  the  devoted  object  of  its 
terrible  attack.  A  sudden  stroke  fell  upon  the  steeple,  the  timber 
part  of  which  was  materially  injured.  Passing  down  to  a  level 
with  the  floor  of  the  gallery,  a  branch  of  the  electric  fluid  seemed 
to  bend  its  course  for  the  stove  pipe  below;  and,  as  is  believed, 
was  conducted  by  the  diverging  branches  through  each  opposite 
window  of  the  building.  A  part  of  the  gallery  floor  and  its  sup- 
porting timbers  were  removed — some  sashes  and  about  370  panes 
of  glass  were  broken.  The  whole  damage  is  estimated  from  500 
to  800  dollars. 

"A  subscription  has  been  opened  and  the  amount  already 
obtained,  we  understand  to  be  very  respectable,  and  highly  char- 
acteristic of  Christian  liberality." 

Under  the  same  date  we  find  an  effusion  by  a  local  bard  who 
signs  himself  "Aristarchus."  Aristarchus  had  been  much  moved 
by  the  storm,  and  among  the  innumerable  stanzas  in  which  he 
pours  forfh  his  soul  is  the  following,  referring  to  the  church: — 

Among  its  victims,  waiting  stood, 
A  sacred  Temple,  firmly  bound ; 
Darting  amid  the  falling  flood, 
Totter'd  the  fabric  to  the  ground. 

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Here  pause  my  soul !  why  was  I  sav'd, 
When  threat'ning  vengeance  hover'd  round : 
'Twas  th'  Almighty  hand  that  sav'd, 
A  trem-bling  sinner  from  the  ground. 

Then  in  obedience  to  his  call, 
I^et  us  adorn  his  sovereign  sway; 
That  the  same  hand  that  sav'd  our  fall, 
May  save  us  at  the  judgment  day! 

On  the  Sunday  succeeding  the  calamity  Dr.  Fisher  preached 
in  the  ruined  church  on  the  text,  "Judgment  must  begin  at  the 
house  of  God."  The  sermon  was  followed  by  an  outpouring  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  and  a  revival  of  religion  such  as  more  than  com- 
pensated for  the  material  loss  and  disaster.  The  reconstructed 
church  faced  on  Oliver  street  and  was  known  as  the  ''Brick 
Church." 

During  Dr.  Fisher's  ministry  of  twenty  years  the  church  con- 
tinued to  grow  in  numbers,  although  laboring  under  constant  debt. 
''The  present  necessities  of  Dr.  Fisher"  is  an  item  of  business  ever 
before  the  trustees  and  notes  are  continually  being  given  to  "set- 
tle" obligations.  In  1834  the  women  took  hold  of  the  financial 
situation  and  permission  was  granted  to  Mrs.  Berry  to  form  a 
"female  association"  to  raise  money  for  the  indebtedness.  This 
was  the  first  woman's  organization  in  the  church.  The  Session 
records  of  that  period  of  the  church's  history  afford  an  interesting 
study  of  the  manners  and  life  of  the  people  and  the  human  nature 
of  the  saints.  Strict  supervision  was  exercised  over  the  lives  of  the 
members  of  the  church  and  no  rumor,  "Common  Fame,"  as  the 
minutes  have  it,  concerning  the  conduct  of  a  communicant  was 
allowed  to  pass  uninvestigated.  Purity  of  doctrine,  too,  was  care- 
fully guarded.  On  one  occasion  we  find  Robert  King  before  the 
Session  for  examination.  Finding  "that  his  mind  was  laboring 
on  several  important  points  and  that  he  had  not  set  up  the  wor- 
ship of  God  in  his  family"  the  Session  refused  to  receive  him  inta 
membership.     At  a  subsequent  meeting  the  difficult  points  were 

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SAMUEL    FISHER 
The    First    Pastor    of    the    Church 


SYLVESTER     EATON 
The    Second   Pastor  of  the   Church 


cleared  up  and  he  was  admitted  to  the  coramunion.  Mrs.  Mary 
Simpson  was  brought  before  the  Session  for  having  joined  the 
''Shaking  Quakers."  Not  satisfied  as  to  her  "renunciation  of  that 
fanatical  and  heretical  sect,"  the  Session  suspended  her.  Other 
offences  with  which  members  are  charged  range  all  the  way  from 

intoxication  to  "attending  the  Episcopal  church."     Lydia 

was  compelled  to  make  public  confession  of  "guiltily  taking  a 
gown  from  one  of  her  sisters  in  the  Lord  and  unlawfully  appropri- 
ating it  to  her  own  use,"  Another  is  charged  with  "walking  on  the 
Sabbath";  another  with  "unlawfully  taking  a  Merino  shawl";  an- 
other with  "playing  cards ;"  another  with  "spending  an  evening  in 
dancing  at  General  Godwin's  Hotel,  when  the  lecture  prepara- 
tory to  the  communion  was  held  in  the  church."  But  the  most 
common  offence  was  intemperance.  The  Session  was  no  respecter 
of  persons  and  men  most  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  Pater- 
son  were  haled  to  its  bar  of  judgment.  The  Sessional  indictment 
makes  interesting  reading;  sometimes  it  is  "excessive  use  of  ar- 
dent spirits,"  sometimes  "immoderate  use,"  sometimes  the  "in- 
toxicating use,"  but  always  spirits  and  always  ardent.  Then, 
as  now,  intemperance  was  one  of  the  chief  obstacles  to  the  work 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  hearts  of  men. 

From  the  fragmentary  records  of  this  period  we  glean 
that  a  hearse  was  purchased  in  1827  and  a  cemetery  on 
Market  street  in  1830.  In  1831  a  Session  House  was 
built  on  the  church  lot.  C.  Brower  is  the  first  sexton 
on  record.  In  1831  the  trustees  fixed  his  salary  at  $40.00 
a  year  and  defined  his  duties  as  follows:  "To  ring  the  bell; 
sweep  the  church  once  a  month  and  dust  it  the  following  day; 
to  trim  and  clean  the  lamps."  In  1840  Christopher  Brower  had 
evidently  grown  lax  in  his  duties  and  was  dismissed.  His  suc- 
cessor was  Matthew  Jackson,  who  reigned  in  Israel,  with  occa- 
sional prayers  for  an  increase  in  salary,  until  1867,  when  he 
was  succeeded  by  one  who  rejoiced  in  the  name  of  Jeremiah  Pye. 
The  job  was  then  worth  $150.00  a  year.  Mr.  Pye  combined  the 
offices  of  collector  and  sexton,  probably  that  of  grave  digger  also. 
The  trustees  were  about  to  dismiss  him  when  he  sent  the  keys 

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to  the  Secretary  with  the  statement  that  he  had  secured  a  better 
job  in  Hoboken.  This  was  in  1875.  There  were  numerous  can- 
didates for  this  high  office  of  the  keys,  and  out  of  this  number 
was  chosen  Georger  Webster,  colored,  at  $5.00  per  week.  Mr. 
Webster  had  assigned  to  him  the  disagreeable  duty  of  "examin- 
ing the  falling  in  of  the  soil  of  the  Old  Cemetery  &  in  case  of 
the  exposure  of  the  remains  of  the  Dead  at  once  have  them  care- 
fully buried."  He  was  compelled  to  go  out  to  the  cemeteries 
twice  a  week.  Evidently  George  did  not  relish  his  job,  for  in 
May,  1877,  the  Grand  Jury  brought  a  Presentment  against  The 
First  Church,  the  Market  Street  M.  E.  Church,  and  St.  Paul's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  for  permitting  their  cemeteries  to 
become  a  public  nuisance.  It  is  amazing  that  churches,  munici- 
pality, and  relatives  permitted  this  abomination  of  desolation  to 
lie  undisturbed  until  the  administration  of  the  present  Mayor 
of  Paterson  changed  these  howling  wastes  into  a  beautiful  park. 
Webster  gave  up  the  keys  and  the  spade  in  1881  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Kobert  Wilson.  Mr.  Wilson  lasted  for  a  year  and  was 
followed  by  Freeman  Strait  at  one  dollar  per  day.  He  served  until 
1887  and  was  succeeded  by  John  Faux.  In  1905  John  Faux  was 
succeeded  by  William  Spreen,  and  he  in  1912  by  the  present  effi- 
cient and  amiable  sexton,  Ezra  Kalle. 

During  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Fisher  the  cholera  raged  in  Pater- 
son and  more  than  eighty  persons  died  of  the  plague.  The  faith- 
ful and  courageous  minister  waited  on  both  soul  and  body  and 
prepared  the  dead  for  their  graves.  In  1830  Dr.  Fisher  took  a 
census  of  Paterson.  The  document  contains  these  interesting 
facts  :  — 

"Total  population,  9,085  ;  Presbyterians,  384 ;  Reformed,  323  ; 
Unitarians,  2 ;  Deists,  4 ;  20  pay  schools,  and  one  free  school  for 
poor  children ;  40  groceries  and  5  grogshops,  where  little  else  but 
ardent  spirits  is  sold;  163  widows;  19  manufactories  of  cotton." 

The  Colt  family  were  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  cotton 
duck,  at  that  time  the  principal  industry  in  Paterson.  Many  a 
fast  sailing  American  clipper  spread  the  cotton  sails  made  in 
Paterson    on    the    seven   seas,    and    many    a    Conestoga    wagon, 

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JOHN     FLAVEL     CLARK 
The    Third    Pastor   of   the    Church 


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THE      REVEREND      MATTHEW      ALLISON 
The    Fourth     Pastor    of    the    Church 


rumbling  over  the  Alleghanies,  displayed  the  canvas  covers  made 
in  Paterson  in  the  remote  settlements  of  the  Ohio  valley. 

After  twenty  years  of  service,  during  which  time  he  had 
built  two  churches  and  seen  his  congregation  grow  from  twenty- 
four  persons  to  five  hundred  and  twenty-four,  Dr.  Fisher  resigned 
the  pastorate  of  the  church  and  removed  to  Ramapo,  where  he 
served  as  missionary.  He  afterwards  was  pastor  of  a  church  at 
Greenbush,  opposite  Albany,  IST.  Y.,  until  1850.  He  died  at 
Succasuna,  N.  J.,  Dec.  27,  1856,  in  the  seventy-ninth  year  of 
his  age  and  of  his  ministry  the  fifty-second.  In  person  Dr.  Fisher 
was  of  large  frame  and  commanding  presence.  Princeton  College 
conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1827,  and 
in  1838  he  was  chosen  as  the  first  moderator  of  the  General  As- 
sembly of  the  "jSTew  School"  Presbyterian  Church.  On  Nov. 
27,  1908,  a  memorial  tablet,  given  to  the  church  by  the  descend- 
ants of  Dr.  Fisher,  was  unveiled  with  impressive  ceremonies. 
The  address  was  delivered  by  a  grandson,  Alfred  P.  Kimball, 
Esq.,  of  New  York.  The  tablet  is  on  the  south  wall  of  the  church 
and  bears  the  inscription  which  was  placed  on  Dr.  Fisher's  tomb 
in  Laurel  Grove  Cemetery  :  — 

In  Memory  Of 

Samuel  Fisher,  D.  D. 

The  First  and  For  Twenty  Years 

Pastor  of  This  Church 

1814^1834 

An  Orphan 

Whose  Father  Fell  In  The  Revolution 

lie  Rose  to  Eminence  As  A  Scholar 

By  His  Own  Efforts 

A  Minister  Of  Christ 

For  More  Than  Fifty  Years 

His  Record  Is  In  The  Hearts  Of  Hundreds 

Converted  Under  His  Ministry 

His  Memory  Is  The  Precious  Inheritance 

Of  The  Churches  To  Whom  He  Ministered 

Born  June  30,  1777 

Died  December  27,  1856 

Erected  By  His  Grand  Children 

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Ou  the  IGth  of  June,  1834,  the  Rev.  Sylvester  Eaton,  pastor 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Buffalo,  New  York,  was 
called  to  be  the  second  pastor  of  the  First  Church.  Sylvester 
Eaton  was  born  August  12,  1790.  He  was  educated  at  Williams 
College  and  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  For  five  years  ho 
was  pastor  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  after  that  supplied  the  pulpit 
of  Dr.  Sprague's  church  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  He  was  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Buffalo,  New  York, 
April  9,  1828.  His  contemporaries  speak  of  Dr.  Eaton  as  a  man 
of  unusual  eloquence  in  the  pulpit  and  a  strong  character.  On 
the  9th  of  November,  1836,  Mr.  Eaton  resigned  the  pastorate 
and  removed  to  Poughkeepsie,  where  he  served  a  church  for  four 
years.  His  health  then  failing,  he  returned  to  Paterson,  and 
thence  went  to  Troy,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  on  the  14th  of  May, 
1844,  in  the  fifty-third  year  of  his  age  and  of  his  ministry  the 
twenty-sixth.  In  1844  the  congregation  of  the  First  Church  in 
Paterson  subscribed  generously  for  the  relief  of  their  former 
pastor,  who  was  then  in  his  last  illness  at  Troy.  The  record  of 
the  subscription  is  a  tribute  to  both  pastor  and  congregation. 

Mr.  Eaton  was  followed  in  the  pastorate  by  the  Rev.  John 
Flavel  Clark.  He  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  Dec.  10, 
1788,  when  his  father,  Joseph  Clark,  D.  D.,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  ministers  of  New  Jersey,  was  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  at  that  place.  He  was  graduated  from  Princeton 
College  in  1807.  After  studying  theology  for  a  time  at  Andover, 
he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton.  On  June 
15th,  1815,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  Flemington,  N.  J.  In  1837  he  was  called  to 
Paterson,  where  he  served  until  May,  1841.  From  Paterson  he 
went  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  and 
from  there  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Fishkill  Village,  N.  Y., 
where  he  died  in  1853,  in  the  sixty-ninth  year  of  his  age  and  of 
his  ministry  the  twenty-eighth.  His  person  was  large  and  portly, 
with  a  beaming  countenance.  His  church  honored  him  by  mak- 
ing him  a  director  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton. 


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WILLIAM      H.      HORNBLOWER 
The     Fifth     Pastor    of    the    Church 


DAVID     MAGIE 
The    sixth     pastor    of    the    church 


During  tlie  pastorate  of  Mr.  Clark  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  United  States  was  disrupted  by  the  great  schism  known 
as  the  "New  School"  movement.  In  1802  a  Plan  of  Union  was 
consummated  between  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  at  that  time  alike  in  teaching  and  doctrine,  and 
differing  only  in  minor  details  of  church  polity.  By  this  ar- 
rangement Presbyterian  ministers  could  serve  Congregational 
churches  and  vice  versa.  But  not  many  years  had  passed  before 
confusion  and  dissatisfaction  began  to  appear.  From  New  Eng- 
land came  new  interpretations  of  Christian  doctrine  and  new 
methods  of  administration  which  were  resented  by  the  more  con- 
servative. Slavery,  too,  began  to  agitate  the  church.  The  New 
School  felt  that  the  church  must  denounce  the  institution ;  they 
were  the  Abolitionists.  The  "Old  School"  felt  that  duty  did  not 
require  the  church  to  pronounce  on  the  subject.  Albert  Barnes 
and  Lyman  Beecher,  father  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  were  tried 
for  heresy  and  the  whole  church  was  rent  with  the  "rabies  theo- 
logorum."  In  1837  the  General  Assembly  exscinded  three  Pres- 
byteries. This  led  to  the  organization  of  a  distinct  ecclesiastical 
bodv  known  as  the  "New  School."  The  first  moderator  of  the 
"New  School"  Assembly  was  the  first  pastor  of  this  church,  Dr. 
Samuel  Fisher.  Paterson  was  not  exempt  from  the  storm.  In 
November,  1836,  we  find  a  prophecy  of  it  in  a  minute  recording 
the  dismissal  of  a  number  of  persons  to  form  the  First  Free  In- 
dependent Presbyterian  Church  of  Paterson.  The  Presbytery  of 
Newark,  which  had  authority  over  the  First  Church  of  Paterson, 
cast  in  its  lot  with  the  "New  School,"  but  the  staunch  conserva- 
tives of  the  congregation  called  a  meeting  and  on  April  13,  1840, 
the  First  Church  voted  to  continue  its  connection  with  the  Svnod 
of  New  Jersey,  "Old  School,"  and  applied  for  admission  to  the 
Presbytery  of  Elizabeth  Town.  This  action  had  been  expected 
by  the  adherents  of  the  "New  School,"  who,  to  the  number  of 
twenty-seven  persons,  of  whom  three  were  elders,  Aaron  King, 
John  Bensen  and  Caleb  Munson  Godwin,  seceded  from  the  First 
Church  on  May,  1840,  to  form  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
of  this  city.     The  seceders  met  first  in  a  building  used  by  the 

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Methodist  Protestants  on  the  corner  of  Hotel  and  Smith  streets, 
in  what  is  now  the  garden  of  the  Agnew  residence.  In  Novem- 
ber, 1869  the  great  schism  was  healed  and  "Old"  and  '"New" 
Schools  became  one'ecclesiastical  body,  the  union  being  consum- 
mated at  Pittsburgh. 

On  the  30th  of  December,  1841,  the  Eev.  Matthew  Allison  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church.  Mr.  Allison  was  born  the 
28th  day  of  July,  1794,  at  Windy  Edge,  Strathaven,  Lankshire, 
Scotland.  He  matriculated  at  Glasgow  University  and  was  grad- 
uated in  1814  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  In  1817  he  was  graduated 
from  the  Divinity  Hall  and  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Relief  Pres- 
bytery of  Glasgow.  On  the  4th  of  August,  1818,  he  was  installed 
pastor  of  the  church  at  Kilbarchan,  about  twelve  miles  from  Glas- 
gow. Here  he  labored  with  eminent  success  for  twenty-three 
years,  when  his  love  of  civil  liberty  and  his  admiration  for  the 
government  of  the  United  States  led  him  to  demit  his  charge  in 
Scotland  and  come  to  this  country  in  May,  1841.  A  few  months 
later  he  was  called  to  the  First  Church  of  Paterson.  Owing  to 
ill  health  in  his  family  he  resigned  his  charge  in  Paterson  on  the 
first  day  of  May,  1843,  and  returned  to  Scotland.  The  next  year 
he  returned  to  America  and  became  pastor  of  the  churches  of 
Mifilintown  and  Lost  Creek,  in  the  Presbytery  of  Huntingdon, 
Pennsylvania.  There  he  labored  until  his  death,  July  8th,  1872, 
in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  his  age,  and  of  his  ministry  the 
fifty-fifth.  He  was  buried  in  the  Presbyterian  Cemetery  at  Mif- 
flintown  in  a  spot  which  he  himself  had  chosen,  overlooking  the 
beautiful  valley  of  the  Juniata. 

Dr.  Allison  was  a  living  example  of  mens  sana  in  corpore  sano. 
He  wrote  his  sermons  with  great  care,  but  delivered  them  from 
memory.  He  was  strictly  orthodox  and  very  evangelical  in  his 
preaching.  He  was  particularly  gifted  in  prayer.  Those  who 
knew  him  say  that  he  was  "remarkable  for  his  fluency,  pathos, 
conciseness,  comprehensiveness  in  prayer.  His  prayers  were  the 
utterance  of  the  heart's  desires  and  the  appeals  of  a  helpless, 
needy  soul,  to  our  Heavenly  Father  with  filial  confidence." 

The  financial  condition  of  the  church  seems  to  have  grown 

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THE     WESTMINSTER     CHURCH 
Founded     by     a     colony    from    The     First     Church     in     1831. 


THE      CHURCH      OF     THE      REDEEMER 
Founded     by    a     colony     from    The     First     Church     in     1886. 


worse  as  the  century  advanced,  for  shortly  after  the  resignation 
of  Mr.  Allison  the  church  property  and  the  cemetery  lots  on  Mar- 
ket street  were  sold  at  sheriff's  sale.  The  property  was  bought  in 
by  the  Society  for  Establishing  Useful  Manufactures  and  recon- 
veyed  to  the  church  with  sundry  restrictions.  The  premises  were 
not  to  be  liable  for  any  debts  of  the  church  and  to  be  used  at  all 
times  as  a  church  and  not  as  a  place  of  residence,  or  for  carrying 
on  any  trade,  business,  or  occupation.  If  at  any  time  the  con- 
gregation passed  from  under  the  control  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America,  com- 
monly  known  as  the  Old  School  General  Assembly,  or  if  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Presbyterian  Church  should  no  longer  be  taught  and 
inculcated,  the  property  was  to  revert  to  the  Township  of  Paterson 
for  the  use  of  Free  Schools  in  which  the  Holy  Bible  should  l)e 
used  as  a  text  book.  Although  the  property  was  given  to  the 
church  in  the  name  of  the  Society  for  Establishing  Useful  Manu- 
factures, the  real  benefactor  of  the  church  was  Roswell  L.  Colt, 
who  had  purchased  practically  all  the  shares  in  the  Society.  In 
1830  Mr.  Colt  built  a  mansion  on  Colt's  Hill.  This  mansion 
with  its  beautiful  grounds  stood  directly  opposite  the  church  and 
for  many  a  year  was  one  of  the  sights  and  boasts  of  Paterson. 
Even  now  the  faces  of  the  older  residents  will  glow  with  enthu- 
siasm as  they  tell  of  its  walks  and  drives,  its  arbors  and  conserva- 
tories, its  "Tarn  O'Shanter"  and  "Souter  Johnny,"  and  divers 
wonders. 

On  the  fourth  of  January,  1844,  William  H.  Hornblower, 
a  licentiate  of  the  Presbytery  of  ISTew  Brunswick,  was  called  to 
the  pastorate  at  a  salary  of  $700.00.  The  coming  of  Dr.  Horn- 
blower  marked  the  beginning  of  an  important  epoch  in  the  history 
of  the  First  Church.  He  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  March  21, 
1820,  of  a  distinguished  family.  His  father  was  a  chief  justice 
of  New  Jersey,  and  his  great-grandfather,  Josiah  H.,  was  speaker 
of  the  Assembly  and  a  state  senator  during  the  Revolution,  and 
a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress.  William  H.  Hornblower 
was  graduated  from  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton 
University,  in  1838,  when  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age.    He  then 

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studied  law  for  a  year  in  his  father's  office.  A  tract  written  by 
Dr.  Archibald  Hodge,  of  Princeton  Seminary,  was  the  means  of 
his  conversion,  and  he  then  consecrated  himself  to  the  ministry 
of  the  Gospel.  Jle  studied  theology  at  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,  from  which  institution  he  was  graduated  in  1842. 
After  a  year  of  labor  in  the  ''Pines,"  then  and  now  the  most  im- 
moral and  unenlightened  section  of  ISTew  Jersey,  he  came  to  Pat- 
erson  and  took  the  part  of  an  assistant  in  the  First  Church,  the 
acting  pastor.  Rev.  Sylvester  Eaton,  being  in  poor  health.  After 
the  resignation  of  Mr.  Allison  he  was  at  once  called  to  be  pastor 
of  the  church,  and  began  his  long  term  of  faithful,  brilliant  and 
successful  service.  He  came  to  Paterson  at  a  time  when  the 
town  was  entering  upon  an  era  of  great  industrial  prosperity,  and 
the  prosperity  of  the  town  was  not  unnaturally  reflected  in  the 
church. 

Dr.  Hornblower  had  been  pastor  for  six  years  when  the 
church  building  was  destroyed  by  fire.  On  the  5th  of  October,. 
1850,  a  tinsmith  was  at  work  on  the  roof,  when  his  charcoal  fur- 
nace was  overturned  and  the  church  set  on  fire.  The  volunteer 
fire  department  was  quickly  on  hand  and  began  to  pump  water 
from  the  Dublin  Spring.  But  their  efforts  were  unavailing  and 
the  building  was  completely  destroyed.  On  the  21st  of  October, 
at  a  meeting  held  in  the  lecture  room  of  the  First  Reformed 
Church  the  congregation  voted  to  rebuild  the  church  and  erect  a 
lecture  room  also.  The  lecture  room  appears  to  have  been  com- 
pleted first.  The  new  church,  the  building  now  standing,  was  de- 
dicated on  the  16th  day  of  November,  1852.  Dr.  David  Magie, 
pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Elizabeth,  the  Rev. 
Nicholas  Murray,  and  two  former  pastors,  John  Flavel  Clark  and! 
Dr.  Samuel  Fisher,  and  Dr.  Hornblower  participated  in  the  ser- 
vices. The  cornerstone  which  had  been  saved  out  of  ruins  of  two 
fires  was  placed  in  the  wall  under  the  tower  as  noted  above.  In 
1859  the  church  which  only  a  few  years  before  had  been  sold 
under  the  hammer  reports  a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  $119.00. 

For  ten  years  the  church  was  without  a  bell,  but  in  I860,, 
largely  through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Edward  Clark,  the  present  bell; 


FRANKLIN     E.    MILLER 
The  Seventh    Pastor  of   the   Church 


was  placed  in  the  reconstructed  tower  of  the  church.  The  bell  cost 
$1,500.00  and  weighs  three  thousand  pounds.  Ever  since  that 
time  the  bell  with  its  rich  musical  tones  has  called  men  to  worship 
G-od.  In  1884  neuresthenics  in  the  vicinity  of  the  church  com- 
plained about  the  ringing  of  the  bell,  and  the  trustees  instructed 
the  sexton  to  cover  the  clapper  with  leather  in  order  to  soften  the 
sound.  When  the  Gamewell  fire  alarm  system  was  introduced  in 
1872  the  alarm  was  attached  to  the  bell.  At  a  meeting  at  which 
the  request  of  the  city  was  being  discussed  some  objected  on  the 
score  of  annoyance  during  divine  service,  when  Socrates  Tuttle 
interposed  that  Dr.  Hornblower  had  been  giving  them  a  fire  alarm 
for  the  last  twenty-five  years  and  this  new  alarm  would  be  no 
annoyance. 


When  the  first  congregation  gathered  in  the  first  church 
building  in  1819  they  sang  the  Psalms  of  David  without  the  as- 
sistance of  any  musical  instrument.  In  1834  the  Session  granted 
the  Singing  Society  permission  to  use  a  bass  viol  in  the  church. 
This  instrument  was  afterwards  introduced  into  the  Sabbath  ser- 
vices, much  to  the  disgust  of  some  of  the  congregation,  among 
them  John  Bensen,  who  said  it  was  all  right  in  a  dance  hall  but 
not  in  a  church.  Mr.  Benson's  daughter,  Mrs.  Clundell,  now 
ninety-one  years  of  age  and  probably  the  oldest  person  living  who 
worshipped  in  the  church  destroyed  in  1850,  sang  in  the  choir 
when  the  bass  viol  was  in  use.  She  relates  how  on  Christmas 
morning  the  chorister,  Mr.  Wilder,  would  fling  his  bass  viol  over 
his  back  and  take  the  choir  to  the  Falls  of  the  Passaic,  where, 
with  the  accompanying  roar  of  the  cataract,  they  sang  the  h}Tnn 
"Hail  to  the  brightness  of  Zion's  glad  morning".  This  same  Mr. 
Wilder  was  in  1839  engaged  to  train  the  choir  at  a  salary  of 
$25.00  a  year. 

In  1845  Mr.  Eoswell  Colt  gave  a  lot  worth  $300  and  $150 
in  cash  for  the  purchase  of  an  organ;  $750  was  raised  and  the 
'Organ  set  up  in  the  church.     This  organ  was  burned  in  the  fire 

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of  1850.  A  new  organ  was  undoubtedly  purchased  for  the  new 
church.  In  1860  Mr.  Field  appears  as  chorister  and  Miss  Jane 
Van  Saun  as  organist.  Mr.  Charles  Atherton  had  charge  of  the 
music  from  18G2  until  his  death  in  1870.  He  raised  the  funds 
for  the  new  organ  which  was  installed  in  1866.  This  organ  was 
moved  from  the  gallery  and  placed  in  the  arcK  back  of  the  pulpit 
when  the  church  was  repaired  in  1894.  In  1907  it  was  replaced 
by  the  present  instrument.  The  old  organ  now  sounds  the 
TeDeum  in  the  Holy  Communion  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
on  Park  avenue.  Mrs.  John  S.  Tylee,  recently  deceased,  was  en- 
gaged as  a  singer  in  the  choir  in  1872  and  was  the  soprano  soloist 
for  quarter  of  a  century.  On  the  28th  of  February,  1897,  her 
silver  jubilee  was  observed  by  a  special  service  of  music  in  the 
church.  Other  singers  that  I  find  mentioned  in  the  records  of  the 
church  are  Mrs.  Lovv^,  Mr.  Smith,  Mr.  Samuel  Tasney,  Miss  Mc- 
Call,  the  Misses  Lizzie  and  Carrie  Orchard,  Miss  Frost,  Miss 
Graham  and  Horatio  Snyder.  Florian  Oborski  was  a  notable 
musician  and  for  many  years  the  organist  of  the  church.  Among 
other  organists  have  been  Mr.  Opitz  and  Mrs.  John  E.  Tylee. 
The  present  organist,  Mr.  George  Benz,  has  served  since  1907. 
Mr.  Samuel  Barbour,  bass  soloist,  has  been  associated  with  the 
choir  for  nineteen  years.  Mrs.  Peter  MacDonald,  the  present 
soprano  soloist,  has  served  for  six  years.  In  November,  1908, 
Mr.  O.  Mortimer  Wiske  was  appointed  chorister  and  organized 
the  large  chorus  choir  which  now  leads  the  singing.  Mr.  Wilder 
scraping  away  at  his  bass  viol  would  be  a  strange  sight  in  our 
church  today. 


The  First  Church  was  born  amid  the  throes  of  the  War  of 
1812  and  three  times  since  it  has  heard  the  tramping  of  armed 
men  going  forth  to  war.  Of  all  these  days  of  war  by  far  the  most 
stirring  were  the  days  of  the  Sixties.  On  the  22nd  of  April,  ten 
days  after  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  on,  Paterson  was  placarded  with^ 
the  following  summons: — 

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CLARENCE     EDWARD     MACARTNEY 
The    Einhth    Pastor    of    the    Church 


To  Anns! 
"The  undersigned  wish  their  fellow  citizens  of  the  City  of  Pat- 
erson  and  vicinity,  without  regard  to  past  political  opinions  or 
associations,  to  meet  tomorrow,  Tuesday  afternoon,  at  2  o'clock, 
in  front  of  the  City  Hall,  to  express  their  sentiments  on  the  pre- 
sent crisis  in  our  national  affairs,  and  their  determination  to 
uphold  the  Government  of  their  country,  and  maintain  the  au- 
thority of  the  Constitution  and  its  laws." 

The  prominence  of  the  men  of  the  First  Church  in  the  affairs 
of  the  city  at  that  time  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  almost  all  of 
the  names  affixed  to  the  call  to  arms  were  members  of  the  con- 
gregation. Among  them  I  note :  Daniel  Barkalow,  Philip  Kaf- 
ferty,  Henry  Low,  A.  J.  Sandford,  D.  G.  Scott,  John  Brown, 
Samuel  Smith,  J.  A.  Canfield,  E.  T.  Prall,  A.  A.  Hopper,  Aaron 
Pennington,  A.  B.  Woodruff,  John  Hopper,  H.  A.  Williams  and 
George  Wiley.  Mayor  Prall  presided  at  the  public  meeting,  and 
Dr.  Hornblower,  H.  A.  Williams,  and  other  members  of  the  con- 
gregation addressed  the  assemblage.  The  Captain  of  one  of  the 
first  companies  to  leave  Paterson  for  the  war,  E.  J.  Ayres,  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Church.  Andrew  Derrom  went  out  as  Col- 
onel of  the  Twenty-fifth  New  Jersey  Volunteers  and  rendered  a 
good  account  in  the  Peninsular  Campaign  in  1862.  Dr.  Fred- 
erick Weller,  surgeon  of  the  Ninth  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  was 
drowned  at  Hatteras  Inlet,  January  15,  1862,  and  the  Rev. 
Francis  Butler,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Hornblower,  and  chaplain  of 
the  Twenty-fifth  Volunteers,  was  wounded  in  action  May  3,  1863, 
and  died  the  next  day.  Robert  Brainerd  Redman,  a  teacher  in 
the  Sabbath  School,  was  taken  prisoner  and  confined  at  Ander- 
sonville.  After  his  release  he  died  from  the  effects  of  the  im- 
prisonment at  Vicksburgh,  April,  1865.  Edwin  Birley,  Ser- 
geant Company  I,  First  Regiment,  was  killed  at  Williams- 
burgh,  Va.,  May  5,  1862.  These  last  two  are  remembered  by 
memorial  tablets  on  the  walls  of  the  lecture  room.  During  the 
early  days  of  the  war  the  flag  of  the  nation  waved  from  the  tower 
of  the  church.    There  the  gifted  and  eloquent  pastor  of  the  church 


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])reached  sermons  which  strengthened  men's  hearts  in  the  Union; 
and  there  the  people  of  the  city  met  together  to  pay  their  final 
tribute  to  the  young  men  who  had  gone  forth  and  given  the  "last 
full  measure  of  dovotion." 

On  the  21st  day  of  August,  1871,  after  twenty-seven  years  of 
service,  Dr.  Hornblower  resigned  the  pastorate  to  accept  a  call 
to  the  chair  of  sacred  rhetoric  and  pastoral  theology  in  the 
Western  Theological  Seminary  at  Alleghany,  Pennsylvania.  It 
was  with  deep  and  unfeigned  regret  that  the  congregation  con- 
curred with  him  in  the  request  that  the  Presbytery  dissolve  the 
pastoral  relation  which  had  bound  them  together  so  long.  Dr. 
Hornblower  proved  as  successful  a  professor  as  he  was  preacher 
and  pastor.  No  member  of  the  faculty  was  more  beloved  and  the 
fragrance  of  his  prayers  yet  lingers  in  the  memory  of  those  who  sat 
under  him  in  the  seminary.  On  the  16th  of  July,  1883,  Dr. 
Hornblower  died  at  Alleghany,  Penna.,  in  the  sixty-third  year 
of  his  age  and  of  his  ministry  the  fortieth.  His  funeral  was  held 
in  this  church.  Among  those  who  participated  in  the  services 
were  the  Rev.  Dr.  Imbrie,  Dr.  Charles  Shaw,  Dr.  David  Magie, 
Dr.  Stevenson,  Dr.  A.  A.  Hodge  and  Dr.  Benjamin  Warfield,  the 
last  two  his  associates  in  the  Seminary  at  Alleghany.  Dr.  Imbrie 
spoke  of  him  as  follows :  "I  have  known  him  in  every  relation. 
I  have  been  entertained  by  him ;  I  have  seen  him  in  the  pulpit  as 
a  preacher  of  the  Gospel,  and  out  of  it  as  a  presbyter  and  pastor ; 
I  have  met  him  in  the  social  literary  circle,  and  in  all  he  was 
ever  the  same  gifted,  cultivated,  wise,  kindly,  courteous  Christian 
minister,  gentleman  and  friend."  On  October  25,  1909,  a  tablet 
to  his  memory  was  unveiled  on  the  north  wall  of  the  church.  The 
tablet  was  the  gift  of  his  son,  William  B.  Hornblower,  of  'New 
York.  At  the  services  when  the  tablet  was  unveiled  addresses 
were  delivered  by  William  B.  Hornblower,  the  Rev.  David  Magie, 
D.  D.,  Dr.  John  Patterson  and  the  Rev.  Clarence  Edward 
Macartney.     The  tablet  bears  this  inscription: 

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In  Memory  Of 
William  Henry  Hornblower,  D.  D. 
For  Twenty-seven  Years 
Pastor  of  This  Church 
1844—1871 
From  1871  to  1883  Professor 
In  The  Western  Theological  Seminary 
Of  the  Presbyterian  Church  At 
Alleghany,  Pennsylvania. 
The  Present  Church  Edifice  Stand- 
ing in  1909  Was  Erected  Under 
His  Pastorate  And  Through  His 
Efforts  In  1851 
Born  March  21,  1820 
Died  July  16,  1883 
Erected  By  His  Son  W.  H.  B. 
"To  Be  Spiritually  Minded  Is  Life" 

On  the  4th  of  January,  1872,  the  Rev.  David  Magie,  of  Penn 
Yan,  was  called  as  pastor  to  succeed  Dr.  Hornblower.  The  con- 
gregation was  divided  between  the  Rev.  David  Magie  and  the 
Rev.  Henry  M.  Booth,  of  Englewood,  and  it  was  not  until  sev- 
eral meetings  had  been  held  that  a  choice  was  made.  The  Rev, 
David  Magie,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Elizabeth,  JST.  J.,  May  23,  1837. 
He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  David  Magie,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Elizabeth.  He  studied  at  Princeton  College  and 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  and  was  ordained  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Elizabeth  in  1860  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Mendham,  N.  J. 

Dr.  Magie  fell  heir  to  a  splendid  congregation  in  the  very 
flower  of  its  strength  and  usefulness.  Shortly  after  he  came  ex- 
tensive repairs  were  made  to  the  lecture  room  and  the  church  at 
a  cost  of  $5,000.00.  In  1873  "there  is  a  minute  of  a  meeting  of  the 
trustees  instructing  Mr.  Bentley  to  have  the  hearse  building  re- 
moved. This  building  stood  on  Cross  street  adjoining  the  lecture 
room.  It  was  undisturbed  until  1886,  when,  at  the  time  repairs 
were  made  to  the  lecture  room  which  had  been  gutted  by  fire, 

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January  17,  1886,  it  was  removed  to  make  room  for  the  present 
church  parlor.  In  the  early  days  the  fire  station  was  on  Prospect 
street.  One  night  some  wags  took  the  hose  wagon  out  of  the 
engine  house  and  ran  it  into  the  hearse  building  on  Cross  stree^t, 
putting  the  hearse  in  the  engine  house.  A  few  hours  later  an 
alarm  of  fire  was  sounded  and  the  volunteers  rushed  to  quarters 
and  started  down  the  street  with  the  hearse  before  they  discovered 
the  hoax.  It  may  safely  be  said  that  the  hearse  had  never  before 
made  such  a  fast  trip. 

During  Dr.  Magic's  pastorate  the  furnace  was  a  constant  sub- 
ject of  debate  with  the  trustees.  Different  contractors  had  been 
consulted  about  it,  and  on  August  28,  1883,  the  following  report 
was  rendered  by  one  of  them:  "I  have  no  doubt  that  you  can 
burn  enough  coal  to  satisfy  your  people  by  burning  it  when  you 
want  to  use  the  room  instead  of  wasting  it  three  or  four  days  in 
advance." 

The  Westminster  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  the  Rev. 
David  W.  Hutchinson  is  now  pastor,  had  its  beginning  when 
James  Angus,  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  First  Church,  deeded 
to  the  trustees  of  the  First  'Church  the  present  site  on  Spring 
street,  on  I^ovember  20,  1878.  For  many  years  a  mission  Sab- 
bath School  was  conducted  there  by  members  of  the  First  Church. 
On  December  9,  1888,  the  trustees  conveyed  to  the  Westminster 
Church  all  the  interests  of  the  First  Church  in  the  Spring  street 
property.  The  Westminster  Church  was  organized  as  an  inde- 
pendent church  in  1881  by  a  colony  of  thirty-six  persons  who 
went  out  from  the  First  Church. 

On  May  24,  1886,  Dr.  Magie  resigned  the  pastorate  to  accept 
a  call  from  the  newly  organized  Church  of  the  Redeemer.  Resi- 
dental  conditions  had  changed  greatly  since  the  First  Church  was 
built  and  many  of  the  members  of  the  congregation  had  removed 
to  what  is  now  called  the  Eastside.  Dr.  Hornblower  as  early  as 
1870  advocated  the  establishment  of  a  church  in  that  part  of 
Paterson.  At  that  time  a  committee  composed  of  H,  A.  Williams, 
Benjamin  Salter,  E.  T.  Bell,  Andrew  Derrom,  F.  C.  Van  Dyk 
and  George  Coulson  brought  in  a  report  favoring  the  erection  of 

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a  church  provided  that  all  give,  *'aiid  give  till  they  feel  it."'  Ap- 
parently all  were  not  willing  to  give  until  they  ''felt  it,"  for  the 
plans  were  not  carried  out.  On  the  3rd  of  November,  1883,  the 
Session  and  Trustees  of  the  First  Church  met  to  consider  the  offer 
of  Mrs.  Mary  Kyle  of  lots  on  Broadway  for  a  new  church.  On  May 
16,  1884,  a  meeting  was  called  of  all  those  favoring  the  establish- 
ment of  a  Presbyterian  Church  on  the  corner  of  Broadway  and 
Graham  avenue,  at  the  Auburn  Street  Congregational  Church. 
Socrates  Tuttle  was  appointed  chairman,  and  Henry  A.  Williams, 
Eugene  Stevenson,  Socrates  Tuttle,  John  S.  Barkalow,  Stephen 
Van  Winkle,  and  William  W.  Evans  were  appointed  a  committee 
to  take  steps  to  incorporate  the  proposed  church.  At  a  meeting 
held  in  the  office  of  Garret  A,  Hobart,  June  9th,  1884,  the  board 
of  Trustees  organized  and  adopted  the  name  ''The  Church  of  the 
Redeemer."  The  cornerstone  of  the  church  was  laid  July  2nd, 
1885.  On  the  10th  of  May,  1886,  the  Session  of  the  First  Church 
granted  letters  of  dismissal  to  ninety-one  persons  to  unite  with 
the  newly  organized  church.  At  that  time  the  Session  adopted 
the  following  minute : 

"After  many  years  of  a  lovable  and  Christian  union  a  friend- 
ship has  grown  among  the  members  of  this  church  commencing, 
much  of  it,  from  infancy,  running  through  youth,  middle  age, 
and  to  the  riper  years  of  maturity.  In  the  Providence  of  God 
necessity  has  compelled  a  division  which  we  pray  may  redound 
to  the  glory  of  God,  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  His  Kingdom 
on  earth,  the  spread  of  truth  and  purity,  and  the  prosperity,  both 
religious  and  material,  of  the  people  of  both  Churches." 

On  the  4th  of  June  Dr.  Magie  announced  to  the  Session  that 
he  had  accepted  a  call  to  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer.  Dr.  Magie 
continued  to  serve  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer  until  he  resigned 
the  pastorate  in  1907.  He  then  removed  to  New  York  where  he 
lived  with  his  son  until  his  death  in  1910.  A  tablet  has  been 
erected  to  his  memory  in  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer.  Dr.  Magie 
left  behind  him  a  long  record  of  faithful  and  efficient  service  in 
the  two  churches  in  Paterson.  He  is  remembered  particularly  as 
a  pastor.     He  held  places  of  honor  and  trust  in  the  Boards  of  the 

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Presbyterian  Church  and  was  a  trustee  of  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary. 

The  loss  of  its  pastor  and  the  removal  of  almost  one  hundred 
members  was  a  severe  blow  to  the  First  Church.  On  September 
23rd,  1886,  the  congregation  called  the  Eev.  C.  A.  Rodney  Jan- 
vier, of  Trenton,  IST.  J,  Mr.  Janvier  declined  the  call,  giving  as 
his  reason  that  he  was  pledged  to  India.  After  many  years  of 
labor  in  India  Dr.  Janvier  returned  to  American  and  became 
pastor  of  the  Holland  Memorial  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Once 
again  he  has  heard  the  call  of  India  and  this  year  goes  back  to 
his  first  love.  On  December  7,  1886,  the  Rev.  Franklin  E.  Miller, 
pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Easton,  Pa.,  was  called 
to  the  pastorate. 

Franklin  E.'  Miller  was  born  on  the  15th  day  of  February, 
1843,  at  Pleasant  Ridge,  Ohio,  where  his  father  Rev.  Samuel  J. 
Miller  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1864  he  was 
graduated  from  Miami  University,  Oxford,  Ohio.  The  passion 
of  the  Civil  War  was  then  over  the  land,  and  the  young  bachelor 
of  arts  secured  a  military  commission  and  served  in  Louisiana  as 
colonel  of  the  17th  Infantry  (colored)  United  States  Volunteers. 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  entered  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary and  was  graduated  in  1868.  On  July  14,  1868,  he  was 
ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  As- 
bury,  'New  Jersey.  There  he  labored  until  1871,  when  he  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Easton,  Pa.  After  sixteen  years  of  distinguished  service  in  that 
church  he  was  called  to  the  First  Churcli,  Paterson,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1886. 

Dr.  Miller  became  pastor  of  the  First  Church  when  it  was 
entering  upon  the  most  critical  period  of  its  history.  The  mem- 
bers who  had  withdrawn  to  form  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer 
were  soon  followed  by  others  who  found  that  church  a  more  con- 
venient place  of  worship.  Kot  only  the  membership  of  the  church, 
but  its  revenues  had  been  sadly  depleted.  To  Dr.  Miller,  there- 
fore, there  fell  the  difficult  task  of  creating  practically  a  new  con- 
gregation.    His  ministry  was  zealous  and  his  qualifications  of  a 

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SOCRATES  TUTTLE  MOSAIC 


high  order,  but  to  him  and  to  many  of  his  fellow  workers  it  seemed 
advisable  after  more  than  ten  years  of  labor  to  sell  the  property 
and  remove  to  a  more  residential  portion  of  the  city.  On  the 
5th  of  May,  1898,  the  Eev.  Charles  D.  Shaw,  D.  D.,  presided  at 
a  joint  meeting  of  the  Sessions  of  the  First  Church  and  the  Sec- 
ond Church,  when  a  proposal  was  made  for  the  establishment  of 
a  collegiate  church.  Chajjels  were  to  be  established  at  West  Pat- 
ei-son,  Totowa,  and  Albion  Place,  and  the  property  of  the  First 
Church  to  be  sold.  Nothing  came  of  this  proposal.  At  a  con- 
gregational meeting  June  15,  1899,  by  a  vote  of  sixty-six  to 
sixty-five  the  trustees  were  instructed  to  sell  the  property  when  a 
suitable  offer  should  be  made.  The  deed  of  1844  provided  that 
the  property  should  revert  to  the  Township  of  Paterson  when  no 
longer  used  for  the  purposes  of  Presbyterian  worship  and  instruc- 
tion. However,  legislation  was  secured  giving  the  congregation 
full  right  to  sell. 

After  a  brief  illness,  Dr.  Miller  died  on  October  4th,  1905, 
in  the  sixty-first  year  of  his  age  and  of  his  ministry  the  thirty- 
sixth.  The  funeral  service  was  held  in  the  church  on  October 
7th.  Dr.  Miller  was  a  preacher,  pastor,  and  presbyter  of  the 
highest  merit.  No  minister  could  desire  better  things  to  be  said 
of  him  than  are  said  of  Dr.  Miller  by  the  members  of  this  church 
where  he  labored  for  nineteen  years.  A  bronze  tablet,  the  gift 
of  the  congregation,  erected  on  the  wall  to  right  of  the  pulpit,  re- 
calls his  memory  and  bears  this  inscription : 

In  Memory  Of 

Rev.  Fbanklin  E.  Miller,  D.  D. 

Pastor  of  this  church  from  1886  to  1904 

On  the  11th  of  February,  1904,  the  Rev.  C.  E.  Macart- 
ney a  licentiate  of  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia,  and  a 
member  of  the  Senior  class  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
was  called  to  be  the  eighth  pastor  of  the  church.  Clarence  Edward 
Macartney  was  born  at  Northwood,  Ohio,  September  18,  1879, 
being  the  youngest  child  of  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Macartney,  D.  D.,  a 
minister  of   the  Reformed    (Covenanter)    Presbyterian    Church. 

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In  1880  his  father  removed  to  Beaver  Falls,  Pa.,  v^here  he  was 
for  many  years  professor  of  Natural  Science  in  Geneva  College. 
There,  in  the  best  of  Christian  homes,  Mr.  Macartney  spent  the 
first  fifteen  years  of  his  life.  In  1897  he  was  graduated  from  the 
Pomona  College  Preparatory  School,  at  Claremont,  California. 
In  1901  he  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 
After  a  year  spent  in  travel  and  newspaper  work,  Mr.  Macartney 
entered  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton.  He  was  the 
fourth  son  of  his  family  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  The  oldest  brother,  Ernest  L.,  is  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Cashmere,  Washington;  John  Robertson, 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Bellingham,  Washington ;  and 
Albert  J.,  the  Kenwood  'Church,  Chicago,  111.  The  four  brothers 
in  the  ministry  attribute  their  choice  of  a  life  work  to  the  in- 
fluences which  surrounded  them  and  the  example  set  before  them 
in  the  early  home  at  Beaver  Falls.  With  one  voice  they  confess 
together,  "My  father's  God,  I  will  exalt  him." 

On  the  26th  of  October,  1905,  the  Rev.  Clarence  Edward 
Macartney,  M.  A.,  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  First 
J  Church.     The  Rev.  John  DeWitt^,  D.  D.,  of  Princeton  Theolo- 

gical Seminary,  preached  the  sermon.  The  Rev.  J.  L.  Macartney, 
D.  D.,  made  the  praj'^er  of  ordination.  The  Rev.  David  James 
Burrell,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  delivered  the  charge  to  the  pastor  and  the 
Rev.  Charles  D.  Shaw,  D.  D.,  the  charge  to  the  congregation. 
Mr.  Macartney  still  remains  in  the  pastorate  of  the  church.  In 
concluding  this  historical  sketch  he  desires  to  bear  witness  to  the 
kindness  and  Christian  courtesy  with  which  the  members  of  the 
First  Church  have  encouraged  him  to  labor  in  the  Lord. 


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CHAPELS. 
Albion  Place 
The  Albion  Place  Chapel  began  its  history  on  September  8, 
1891,  when  a  Sabbath  School  was  organized.  Previous  to  that 
the  Session  had  recommended  the  purchase  of  the  present  site 
on  the  Notch  Road.  The  Albion  Place  Chapel,  beautiful  for  sit- 
uation, has  a  band  of  faithful  and  devoted  workers  who  have  kept 
the  light  of  the  Gospel  burning  brightly  on  the  high  places  of 
Paterson.  The  Rev.  George  Coulson  is  at  present  in  charge  of 
the  Chapel. 

TOTOWA 

The  Totowa  Presbyterian  Chapel  was  born  on  January  8, 
1899,  when  sixty-five  persons  met  in  the  old  school  house  on 
Sherman  avenue  and  organized  a  Sabbath  School.  The  new 
school  was  taken  under  the  care  of  the  Session  of  the  First 
Church.  Dr.  Franklin  E.  Miller,  then  pastor  of  the  church,  was 
ambitious  for  Presbyterianism  in  Paterson  and  planned  for 
chapels  on  Albion  Place,  Totowa,  and  West  Paterson.  When  Mr. 
Macartney  became  pastor  of  the  First  Church,  Mrs.  Jennie  T.  Ho- 
bart,  the  widow  of  the  Vice  President,  presented  to  the  Trustees  of 
the  First  Church  the  property  on  Sherman  avenue  where  the  Sab- 
bath School  had  been  meeting.     This  gift  was  followed  by  another 

of  $2,500.00  in  cash.  Thus  the  present  handsome  property  of  the 
Totowa  Chapel  was  made  possible.     The  church  was  dedicated 

April  7,  1908.  Among  the  ministers  who  have  served  there 
are  the  Rev.  Robert  Knox,  now  a  missionary  in  Korea,  the  Rev. 
Howard  Mulholland,  recently  deceased,  the  Rev.  Harry  Harris, 
and  the  Rev.  O.  M.  Demcott,  now  pastor  of  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

Italians 
The  Synod  of  !New  Jersey  has  instituted  a  work  among  the 
Italians  of  Paterson.  The  services  are  held  in  the  Chapel  of  the 
First  Church  and  are  under  the  supervision  of  the  Rev.  Carlo 
Altarelli,  M.  A.,  who  during  the  few  years  he  has  been  in  Pater- 
son 'has  won  for  himself  a  place  of  leadership  and  influence  among 
the  many  thousands  of  Italians  living  in  Paterson. 

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Syrians 
Mr.  Abdu  Gorab,  formerly  a  teacher  in  our  Presbyterian 
schools  ill  Syria,  and  a  Christian  gentleman  who  has  gained  the 
esteem  and  confidence  of  his  friends  in  the  First  Church,  con- 
ducts a  Bible  Class  every  Sabbath  afternoon  for  the  Syrians  res- 
ident in  Paterson. 

Memorial  Hall 

lu  October,  1907  the  church  was  retitted  and  a  new  organ 
installed.  In  1908  plans  were  formulated  for  the  erection  of  a 
new  building  between  the  church  and  the  chapel,  ^frs.  Jennie 
T.  Hobart  made  an  initial  gift  of  $2,500.00  and  this  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  generous  response  from  the  whole  congregation.  Tlie 
new  building,  known  as  Memorial  Hall,  was  formally  dedicated 
in  January,  1909.  In  the  basement  there  is  the  social  room, 
with  bowling  alleys,  shuffle  board,  billiards,  etc.  On  the  first 
fioor  a  large  room  for  the  junior  department  of  the  Sabbath  School 
and  robing  rooms  for  the  choir.  On  the  second  floor  there  are 
rooms  for  the  primary  department  of  the  Sabbath  School  and 
the  pastor's  retiring  room.  The  building  could  not  have  been 
dedicated  free  of  debt  had  it  not  been  for  the  eenerositv  of  Mr. 
A.  W.  Barnes  and  members  of  his  family. 

Gifts  to  the  Church 

The  Devereaux  Fund,  Mary  Rice  Devereaux,  on  the  12th  day 
of  August,  18G6,  made  the  following  bequest  to  the  church:  "In 
compliance  Avith  a  promise  long  since  made  to  my  mother,  I  give 
to  the  Trustees  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  or  Society  in 
the  town  of  Paterson,  Passaic  County,  New  Jersey,  the  sum  of 
one  thousand  dollars  to  be  held  by  them  in  perpetuity,  and  the 
interest  and  income  thereof  to  be  applied  by  the  said  trustees  in 
their  discretion,  towards  the  education  of  young  men  for  the 
Presbyterian  ministry." 

Mary  Rice  Devereaux  was  the  daughter  of  Peter  and  Sarah 
('olt.  On  January  14th,  1815,  she  married  John  Devereaux,  a 
Roman  Catholic,  of  Utica,  iSTew  York.  Twenty  years  after  her 
marriage  she  embraced  the  faith  of  her  husband  and  became  a 
Catholic.     She  died  at  Utica,  August  7,  1868.     The  Rev.  Wil- 

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liain  Mcl^ulty,  priest  of  St.  Johu  Baptist's  Church,  Patcrson, 
preached  the  funeral  sermon.  Mr.  Kobert  Findlaj,  son  of  our 
Clerk  of  Session,  Mr.  John  Findlay,  a  candidate  for  the  ministry 
and  a  student  at  Wooster  University,  Ohio,  is  the  present  bene- 
ficiary. 

Geneva  College  Scholarships.  In  1912  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  W. 
Barnes  and  Mrs.  Jennie  T.  Hobart  established  two  scholarships, 
each  of  one  thousand  dollars  value  at  Geneva  College,  Beaver 
Falls,  Pa.,  for  the  education  of  worthy  young  men  or  young  wo- 
men, it  being  understood  that  applicants  from  the  congregation 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  should 
have  the  first  claim  on  said  scholarships. 

■  Mary  Sansworth.  In  1896  Mary  Sansworth,  a  member  of 
the  church,  left  $500.00  to  the  trustees  to  be  invested  for  the 
benefit  of  needy  members  of  the  congregation. 

Henry  White.  On  April  9,  1853,  Henry  White  left  a  will 
in  which  he  provided  that  in  the  event  of  his  son  William  dying 
without  heirs,  his  property  should  be  given  to  the  Trustees  of  the 
First  Church  and  the  income  from  it  used  as  a  relief  fund  for 
the  poor. 

The  Fisher  Tablet.  Given  by  the  grandchildren  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Fisher. 

The  Hornblower  Tablet.  Given  by  William  B.  Hornblower 
in  memory  of  his  father. 

The  Henry  Clark  Tablet.  Given  by  the  children  of  Henry 
Clark,  long  an  elder  in  this  church  and  son  of  a  charter  member, 
John  Clark. 

The  Corner  Stone  Tablet.     Donor  unknown. 

The  Franklin  E.  Miller  Tablet.     Given  by  the  congregation. 

The  Brass  Reading  Desk.  In  memory  of  Dr.  Miller  by  the 
Y .  1 .  o.  (_/.  sL. 

The  Brass  Pulpit.     Presented  to  the  church  by  John  Clark. 

The  Socrates  Tuttle  [Mosaic.  Presented  to  the  church  by 
Mrs.  Jennie  T.  Hobart. 

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The  Sarah  Colt  Tablet.  In  memory  of  the  founder  of  the 
Sabbath  School.     Erected  bj  the  children  of  the  Sabbath  School. 

The  Communion  Service.  Presented  to  the  church  by  Mrs. 
Mary  Ryle. 

Memorial  Windows.  The  Mary  Shield  Barnes  Memorial. 
Presented  by  A.  W.  Barnes.  The  John  Bentley  Memorial ;  given 
by  Martha  Bentley.  The  Worden  Memorial,  given  by  George  H. 
and  Mary  Worden.  The  Minnie  Graham  Howden  Memorial ; 
given  by  Peter  Hov^'den. 

The  McMullen  Tablet. 

I.  N.  E.  I. 

Sacred 

To  The  Memory  Of 

The  Reverejsd  Robert  McMullen 

And  His  Wife 

Sarah  Colt  Pierson 

They  Sailed  From  the  United  States 

As  Missionaries  Sept.  12,  1856; 

And  Were  Stationed  at  Futtehgurh, 

Northern  India;  in  Their  Flight 

During  the  Sepoy  Mutiny, 

They  Were  Taken  Prisoners 

And  Put  to  Death  at  Cawnpore 

By  Command  of  Nana  Sahib, 

June  10,  1857. 

''There  is  no  man  that  hath  left  house, 

or  brethren,  or  sisters,  or 

father,  or  mother,  or  wife,  or  children, 

or  lands,  for  my  sake,  and  the  gospel's. 

But  he  shall  receive  an  hundredfold  now 

In  this  time,  with  persecutions, — and 

in  the  world  to  come  eternal  life." 

Mark  10:29,  30. 


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